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@jwz@mastodon.social I mean, remember when BOY LONDON would sell merch with the fucking Reichsadler on it, and young people would just...wear it out?
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@eskett@mstdn.social @bagder@mastodon.social Put another way, curl is the model to follow.
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@noodlemaz @jerry @jernej__s Yeah, my first reaction was "Wait, were The Pawoo People part of the Iroquois Confederacy?" until I read on and realised it was probably a startup name.
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@Colman@mastodon.ie @stavvers@masto.ai Look, I was raised Orthodox and it's kind of the reason I'm vegetarian today: you basically spend half the year as a strict vegan who for strange historical reasons can eat shellfish. Lent is a time spent several hours STANDING at church per day, prostrating yourself and repeating litanies and singing modal hymns.
Orthodox laity are closer to Catholic monks than anything the US can conjure up in its prosperity-gospel religions.
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@nocontexttrek@mastodon.social I love how S1 of TNG did the TOS thing of "when you land on a planet, the sky is just Some Saturated Colour."
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@FourT4@mastodonapp.uk I loved when that came up after an episode of Doctor Who. Yes, I have been affected by time-travellers fighting invisible monsters in rural Fra—oh, you meant Vincent Van Gogh's crushing depression, didn't you?
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To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o’clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do.
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Make your rules of discourse not read as dogwhistles challenge, difficulty: impossible.
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@christineburns@mastodon.green @ChristineMalec@mstdn.ca I often put extra analysis or observation in alt text, to encourage more people to both read it and include it.
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@christineburns@mastodon.green @ChristineMalec@mstdn.ca (but I also do that with figure captions in documents I write in pandoc/LaTeX, so it's force of habit)
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@lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space It's especially galling when autocorrect accepts a four-letter word but will never prompt with it. Like, you guys KNOW it's what I want to type, and yet...
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@sugar they used to be called "toots" and boosting used to be called "undersigning" we have fallen so far
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@eschaton I always report people who post AI slop to the pixel art hash tags. It's always fun to point out that they don't actually contain pixels.
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@nando161@partyon.xyz Note also that their definition of "save" is "invest in a financial instrument" which basically means "lend Capital your money for long periods at weak rates"
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@stibbons@s.scintilla.social @weirdestate@eigenmagic.net Imagine your every shift and shuffle in your box being transmitted along the material to everyone else's boxes.
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@randahl This is also one of the great stories of UK power generation, as well. And given coal-powered industry started here, it's even more symbolic.
graphs from https://grid.iamkate.com
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@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org The way I fixed it in my head was when I memorised that if you leave out the second argument, it makes the link in the CWD with the name of the first argument. So obviously the first argument is the target, because the second argument is optional!
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@alpacamale @ferryoons This image looks like LLM slop to me, and yeah: otters are famous for being amazing swimmers.
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@maaikees I often use the story of the STB libraries to illustrate this, but usually as an argument for FOSS rather than anti-LLM.
Sean Barrett worked at game companies, writing performance-critical code in C that needed to not crash on people's PCs. He tells the stories about how everyone would just write libraries to solve problems that C left to the programmer, and then they'd have to re-write them from memory at the next games company where they worked because the code was the property of their old employer.
They'd lose time debugging the things, which was wasted as they often had done this debugging twice before!
So Barrett sat down on his own and wrote a bunch of the things he'd done in the past, and then just to ensure that they had the least friction whatsoever he put them out in the public domain. Like, HERE, now we can ALL stop rewriting this stuff!
He's even done contracting work where things like his codec libraries ended up being part of the collection as part of the contract. He got paid less, but then he had access to the library afterward for when he needed it.
And so do we!
https://github.com/r-lyeh/single_file_libs
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@cwebber@social.coop The semantic decay in this thread led me to discover that "Boys & Girls" was actually a Blur song all along, so I had actually heard Blur before goddammit.
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@Crystal_Fish_Caves@mstdn.party @bascule@mas.to Yeah, housecats kill more birds than wind turbines.
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@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @idlestate@toot.cat @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @shrub900@mastodon.social That one may not count, as the target register was often in the mnemonic itself (i.e. LDA, LDX, LDY to load the operand into the A, X, or Y register).
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@dpflug @alpacamale @ferryoons Ah, that image shows a culvert with a weir on it, which I'd imagine does affect the otters' ability to traverse the river. That makes much more sense.
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@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social I keep this slide from donoteat's early youtube videos to hand for exactly this sort of commentary.
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@bruces Except they kind of were. The Luddites were expert loom-users who only smashed the machinery of bosses who didn't engage in fair dealing.
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@woozle @cwebber The worst is when the trolls argue that nobody ever dies of hunger: they're either dead (from some disease made worse by malnutrition) or they're alive and therefore not "starving". It's wild how much structure some of these people build around refusing to accept the world as it is.
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@cwebber Yeah, and the thing is every time I hear this stuff I just know that if I pass their silly purity test to actually oppose their profligate cruelty, they'll write me off as an extreme obsessive. It's the infamous hypocrite/zealot dichotomy, which allows them to write off absolutely everyone who disagrees with them.
So I started taking this back to them, for a while. "If you're such a big fan of driving, what are you doing here instead of being out in traffic??"
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@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @cwebber@social.coop Shannon Vallor likes to posit LLMs as mirrors, rather than minds. I think I take more visceral enjoyment in using the recent Trash Future analogy that most people seem to treat them like wishing wells: just keep tossing coins in and making wishes, and scolding people for Not Believing.
https://art19.com/shows/dreaming-against-the-machine/episodes/f082c693-a81d-4454-8801-de9ad3a76281
